How one Sacramento fiber art studio is creating environmentally friendly art – Sac News & Review

A group of artists gather around a table lined with supplies: Speedball Speedy Carve Blocks, tools for carving linoleum and ink. An instructor guides the group as they carve a design into these blocks, finalizing an image they will press onto the old shirts they have brought with them. When the artists finally use their new fabric stamps, they transform an old item into a new work of art. This is one of the goals that Maris Kaplan, creator of Broad Cloth Community Fiber Studio, had when she first proposed its creation. 

“I’m really hoping to spread awareness about creative reuse and specifically skills related to fiber arts and sewing like mending,” Kaplan says. “Just normalizing and encouraging less waste.” 

Broad Cloth Community Fiber Studio, which launched this April, is a fabric art-focused space offering beginner-friendly monthly sewing workshops. The workshops happen inside Broad Room Creative Collective, a nonprofit organization that provides art supplies donated to its Free Art Supply Closet Network to artists. 

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